Is global warming really going on or is it just a rumor somebody started?

Question

Is global warming really going on or is it just a rumor somebody started?

Answer 1

Global Warming isn't a rumor. Global warming means that our temperature of the Earth is rising and that's what is happening. There is scientific proof that the temperature is rising. Every year the temperature is going up. We know this because scientists conduct temperature measuring each year.

Answer 2

Global Warming is true, there are Natural fazes but we are affecting that to a great extent ,with deforestation ,desertification and pollution., especially air pollution.

A few weeks ago one of NASA's top scientists concluded that the Arctic Ocean could be nearly ice-free within five years, much faster than all previous predictions.

when the north pole is gone , you may have polar bears soon in America ,looking for a home ,

Calculations do not include the accumulative ,speeding up ,factor with time. the increase in water temperature will get faster all the time as well as the melting, when the ice is all gone the deeper cold Ocean currents will stop ,and the drag has gone with it ,also changing the higher warm currents,And only the moon will keep things moving

This will affect coastal climates ,world wide ,almost instantly. All aquatic flora and fauna will be affected,many dying off and others becoming invasive,

And recently In Chiapas ,and Tabasco in Mexico .more then a million people became homeless overnight with water coming up to their roofs ,because of rains from super evaporation from the forests,this had never happened before. Millions of animals died.

In India 3000 people died because of super storms .

.A few years ago in Europe 3500 people,died during a heat wave ,many of them in France .

Right now the average death toll annually is 150.000 due to Global warming

. these figures are already out of date and are expected to double soon.

In Northern China millions of people are running for their lives because regular dust storms so far have buried 900 villages under the sand and the whole of northern China is turning into a dessert.

The Sahara is growing by 7 kilometers a year all around the edges ,like a slow burning fire shriveling up their neighbors In the Kalahari huge rivers have dried up and thousand of species are gone due to their habitats disappearing .

The biggest changes are invisible at micro biotic levels species are becoming extinct ,others are multiplying ,

This affects the insect populations that follow ,and changes in that ,affect all that follows in the food chains ,

All life is interrelated of both flora and fauna, And since we are on the top of the food chain ,

we are always the last to know.

So Global warming has its toll there are incidents all over the world ,

However

confusion rules the day ,i am beginning to think that SCIENCE HAS BEEN INVADED WITH POLITICS AND HUMAN EMOTIONS

The truth is being distorted at high levels,

And lies have been weaved in.

Some of the real dangers are being hidden because there are no solutions , Public could panic.and Authorities would loose control .

Besides Corporations have other priorities and changes will cause loss of profits ,this also affects the truths being published

Others facts are exaggerated so that the phenomena can be used to milk the people.

This is further complicated with Arrogance that will not admit that mankind could be guilty, or that Gods could be out of control ,unloving or incompetent

But I do not think we can make a real difference anymore to change the tide.

On a Global scale,Humanity is not co operative enough .

The poor regions have other priorities such as daily survival.

There is a lot we can do about being more responsible with what we got ,

In the first world countries many do not care or are more interested in Global Control than Global Warming.

Answer 3

if you do some research then its true... its getting warmer where i live.. like a lot warmer...i think its true...

Answer 4

A theory with overwelmingly conclusive evidence.

Skeptic argument

The cause is up for debate. There is no consensus.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11...

"This consensus is represented in the IPCC Third Assessment Report, Working Group 1 (TAR WG1), the most comprehensive compilation and summary of current climate research ever attempted, and arguably the most thoroughly peer reviewed scientific document in history. While this review was sponsored by the UN, the research it compiled and reviewed was not, and the scientists involved were independent and came from all over the world."

"The conclusions reached in this document have been explicitly endorsed by ..."

Academia Brasiliera de Ciências (Bazil)

Royal Society of Canada

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Academié des Sciences (France)

Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina (Germany)

Indian National Science Academy

Accademia dei Lincei (Italy)

Science Council of Japan

Russian Academy of Sciences

Royal Society (United Kingdom)

National Academy of Sciences (United States of America)

Australian Academy of Sciences

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts

Caribbean Academy of Sciences

Indonesian Academy of Sciences

Royal Irish Academy

Academy of Sciences Malaysia

Academy Council of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

"In addition to these national academies, the following institutions specializing in climate, atmosphere, ocean, and/or earth sciences have endorsed or published the same conclusions as presented in the TAR report:

NASA's Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

State of the Canadian Cryosphere (SOCC)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Royal Society of the United Kingdom (RS)

American Geophysical Union (AGU)

American Institute of Physics (AIP)

National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)

American Meteorological Society (AMS)

Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)

If this is not scientific consensus, what in the world would a consensus look like?"

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/0... The Cold Truth about Global Warming by Joseph Romm

"The big difference I have with the doubters is they believe the IPCC reports seriously overstate the impact of human emissions on the climate, whereas the actual observed climate data clearly show the reports dramatically understate the impact."

"One of the most serious results of the overuse of the term "consensus" in the public discussion of global warming is that it creates a simple strategy for doubters to confuse the public, the press and politicians: Simply come up with as long a list as you can of scientists who dispute the theory. After all, such disagreement is prima facie proof that no consensus of opinion exists."

"So we end up with the absurd but pointless spectacle of the leading denier in the U.S. Senate, James Inhofe, R-Okla., who recently put out a list of more than 400 names of supposedly "prominent scientists" who supposedly "recently voiced significant objections to major aspects of the so-called 'consensus' on man-made global warming."

"As it turned out, the list is both padded and laughable, containing the opinions of TV weathermen, economists, a bunch of non-prominent scientists who aren't climate experts, and, perhaps surprisingly, even a number of people who actually believe in the consensus."

"But in any case, nothing could be more irrelevant to climate science than the opinion of people on the list such as Weather Channel founder John Coleman or famed inventor Ray Kurzweil (who actually does "think global warming is real"). Or, for that matter, my opinion -- even though I researched a Ph.D. thesis at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography on physical oceanography in the Greenland Sea."

"What matters is scientific findings -- data, not opinions. The IPCC relies on the peer-reviewed scientific literature for its conclusions, which must meet the rigorous requirements of the scientific method and which are inevitably scrutinized by others seeking to disprove that work. That is why I cite and link to as much research as is possible, hundreds of studies in the case of this article. Opinions are irrelevant."

  Danni says it is a hoax and global warming is caused by the sun.   Nope! and Nope!

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/11...

Some people imagine that it is funded by the U.N. and is therefore slanted.  The U.N. has nothing to do with the research, they just fund it and facilitate meetings etc.  The scientists work independently.   And are from all political persuasions and nations and religions.

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2006/12...

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/arc...

Actually the solar factor has been overcompensated for in their calculations and they still came with the sun only contributing 0-10% over the last 50 years or so.

Answer 5

I think it is real and if it isn't am gonna be a mad cat!!!

Answer 6

No its a hoax by the extreme left.  They are anti-everything  modern.  They want this world turned back 500 years, so big business is no more.

Answer 7

Man made global warming definitely hoax, natural occurrence due to solar activity more than likely. Junk scientists should be hung from a tree like the horse thieves they are.

Danni

Answer 8

Well, this is not an ice age, so global warming may have been going on for a long time.

The real question to ask is whether there has been a recent acceleration in the process.

Despite this winter, yes there has been an acceleration of the effect.

Earth does see an acceleration in this effect when we have been a long time since volcanic activity, and this is our recent history. But our warming history goes back before the most recent spate of volcanic activity.

Today if there remains a question it is more about cause, and whether removing that cause can undo the acceleration.

Answer 9

I think its really happening =/ idk

Answer 10

good question.

Answer 11

If its fake its one h**l of a conspiracy!

World governments all co-operating, thousands of scientists conspireing, with no benifit to themselves that could not have been achieved way more easily.

Essentially conspiracy theorists should stick to alien hunting - its more intelegent!

Answer 12

its real!

watch the movie an inconvinient truth and you'll believe too.

Answer 13

rumor

Answer 14

Well there isn't enough evidence for some, but pretty much everyone agrees that us humans are poisoning the earth.

Answer 15

i dotn want to trash any one's opinions, because everyone has the right to opinions, but i definitely dont believe in global warming, for several reasons. First, this year temperatures where actually the coldest in nearly a hundred years in some areas. Additionally, most people who believe in global warming are looking at the Earth's entire life. This is actually a relatively cold period for earth, so by getting warmer it would actual be warmer. Third, in the seventies, environmentals all preached about "global cooling," claiming that if we continued to pollute the earth, we would all freeze.  I do believe, however, that humans are polluting the earth, but there are better ways to solve these problems than stop using the technology that weve gained in the past years. One of the greatest hypocracies surrounding global warming is that many environmentals say that were polluting the earth, but when conservatives like myself give other options for energy, such as wind power, they refuse to accept in the windiest places, such as the beach, becaus ethey ruin the view. If people would take account for themselves and stop blaming others for ruining the earth, it would be much cleaner. And also, last year I watched an inconvinient truth in school adn believed global warming, until i researched that they were giving a one sided view

Answer 16

Global warming is for real, but man is not causing it.